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14:31 05-01-2009
The 12 Scams of Christmas
January 5th 2009, the 13th day after Christmas. What were the 12 Scams of Christmas, and could you put them into words that would fit the Christmas carol “The 12 days of Christmas”?...
12:49 05-01-2009
It's 2009
OK, I’m stating the obvious, the last 3 months of 2008 were hectic for my company but things were not helped by, what seemed, a continuous series of colds being suffered by...
17:55 22-12-2008
Why is the cybercriminal like Santa Claus?
Twas the week before Christmas, so please treat this with some seasonal cheer..... Why is the cybercriminal like Santa Claus? 1. He/she often travels across the world to reach his/her...
11:39 16-12-2008
It's not raining mum, coz I want to go out
The Safari (7% market share) and Google Chrome (over 10 million users) web browsers were reported earlier this week to have dangerously weak password management. The problem apparently stems from...
20:11 11-12-2008
Security – the glue that binds?
Earlier this year, we did some work for a hardware vendor to help them determine how IT departments could communicate better, and become more multi-skilled. To summarise, there was one...
15:37 11-12-2008
Recycling CISOs in a time of recession
It is already clear that the current market downturn is likely to have an effect on some information security teams in the form of redundancies, and several teams have already...
23:22 14-11-2008
Being aware
A week or two back Dr Louise Bennett, Chair of the Security Forum Panel for the British Computing Society (www.bcs.org) in an interview broadcast by Local Government TV (www.localgov.tv) said,...
20:55 05-11-2008
Should we agree to wider NHS data sharing?
The NHS has opened a public consultation on "the wider use of patient information", which essentially boils down to the sharing of anonymised and partially anonymised patient data for research...
12:45 03-11-2008
A question of priorities
I had an interesting experience the other day. One of my customers called me in a panic because their IP phone system was being disrupted by their antivirus software. This...
08:01 28-10-2008